Similitude

Title

Similitude

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Fine Art See all items with this value

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Description

"In 'Similitude', Langerman brought together a selection of objects from three disparate disciplines – glassware from chemical engineering; a skull with an arrow embedded in it and a torch used as a murder weapon from forensic pathology; and two flutes from the Kirby collection. Ignoring the assigned functions the objects performed within their respective disciplines, she chose instead to use their formal characteristics as a taxonomic device. They were all, as she described them, ‘long thin things’ (Langerman n.d.). In displacing these objects from their respective disciplines and positioning them in proximity to objects that shared this new category, she neutralised their disciplinary functions and flattened their meanings within those fields (Langerman n.d.)" (Liebenberg 2021: 183).

Access Rights

Centre for Curating the Archive

Curriculum

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url

https://issuu.com/cca.uct/docs/curiosity_for_web

Creator

Fritha Langerman See all items with this value

Date Created

2004

Source

* Skotnes, P., Langerman, F. & Van Embden, G. 2004. Curiosity CLXXV: A paper cabinet. Cape Town: LLAREC Series in Visual History.

* Liebenberg, N. 2021. The virus and the vaccine: curatorship and the disciplinary outsider. University of Cape Town. Doctoral dissertation.

* Fritha langerman’s website description of 'Curiosity CLXXV'

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Type

Text

Photo

Exhibition

Item sets

99_LBNNIN001

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Materials

The Medicine Chest

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